Crime Fiction Is A Genre For Writing

Some Artists See A Gig As An Audience Worshipping Them. I Think It Is About Having A Great Time Together. I Have A Part As The Singer. An Audience Has A Part. Playing A Gig Doesn't Make Me High On Myself.

...he Went Into The Sitting Room, Put On A Duke Ellington Record He Had Bought After Seeing Gene Hackman Sitting On The Overnight Bus In The Conversation To The Sound Of Some Fragile Piano Notes That Were The Loneliest Harry Had Ever Heard.

When I Finish A Book, I'm So Exhausted That I'm Sort Of Letting Myself Think That This Could Be The End.

I'm Just An Entertainer. In A Way Crime Stories Are Boring. A Crime's Been Committed And At The End You Know It Will Be Solved. So You've Got To Make The Story Interesting Besides It Just Being A Plot. And That's Why Character Matters, Why You've Got To Make The Characters Interesting.

Let Me Say Here And Now That Faith Has Never Done Me Any Good, Only Doubt. So That Is What Has Become My Testament.